2003-07-13
... ? BBC NEWS | World | From Our Own Correspondent | Stalin's ghost looms largeIt is 10 years since the self-styled Republic of Abkhazia broke away from Georgia and declared independence. Nobody recognises this land, where the Caucasus mountains meet the Black Sea, as a nation. So a decade on its people live cut off from the rest of the world. Most of their borders are closed, their economy throttled by an international economic embargo designed to force them to reunite with Georgia.
